The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-09-30
OREGON NEWS.
Everything Of General Interest IN q
Condensed Form.


A Chinaman fishing on Galice creek
was drowned.
Frosts are beginning 70 nip garden
crops in and around LinkvilIe.
The postofiice at Glad Tidings, Clack-
amas county, has been discontinued.
Douglas county expects hop yield
OF 1900 bales That was last years
yield.
Tyo-thirds OF the $3.50 900 subsidy
for the Astoria railroad has been sub
scribed.
j. J. Brown, of Prineyille, Or, was
sand -bagged and robbed of $50 in
Bear valley.
Harry Downing, SON OF DR.. Down
ing, was drowned while playing in the
log boom at Coquille city
Savage Bros saw mill on the Tua-
latin, about IL miles from Porsland,
was burned. Loss 5000.
John Peters, sailor ON the schooner
Claus Spreckels, was accidently
drowned at Shoalwatsr Bay.
The Piute Indians OF Harney valley
are serious considering the advisability
OF going on some reservation
The Sellwood ferry steamer caught
fire and burned to the waters edge,
and sunk in fifty feet OF water.
Centerville will donate $4,000 to
the o. & w. 7. r. r. Co. for the build
ing OF its branch road to that place
E. Chichester's barn, filed with
baled hay, near the Eugene University
grounds, was totally destroyed by fire.
M-. Henry, farmer in Coles valley,
Douglas county, had HOO bushels Of
wheat burned from a burning straw
pile.
Mrs. Stanford, the millionaire's wife,
generously donated $500 each to the
Children's Home and the Boys and
Girls Aid Society of Portland.
The baby daughter Of W. S. Boyn-
ton, living on Owens creek, near Ca
mas prarie, Umatilla county, was
drowned by falling into that creek.
The recent rains have started the
grass on the hills, and by the time
sheepmen move their focks from the
mountains feed win be excellent, says
an 0cocho paper
A new steamboat for the Oregon Pa
cific Railroad, to be used in the Villa
mette river trade, is under construc-
ton at Portland. It viii be an exact
counterpart Of the N. s. Bentley.
Grasshoppers in the fosthiIls neal
Kerby are doing considerable damage
and are said 70 be more numerous
than at any time since 1862, when
they devoured everything before them
A large number OF UmatiIla Indian.
are roaming in the Pocahontas noun
tains. Their visit win be the means ol
driving all the game out Of the country
Hunters and mountaineers are wrathy
David Irwin, OF Corvallis, was robbed
OF $500 while attending the circus nj
that place. A number of young mer
were also fieeced of various sums rang
ing from $40 TO $40 by confidence
games.
The Presbyterian Church, JUS
finished at Lafayette, is q very neai
edifce. The building is forty two feet
long and twenty-six feet wide, and vii
seat 225 persons The spire is forty
six feet high
A printer named Percy NJ. Walker
while attempting to steal ride ON the
cars at Glendale, fell off the brake beam
and was cut 70 pieces. MuItnomal
Typographical Union of Portland gave
him decent burial
Hop picking throughout Linn
county developes the fact that ths
yield this year viii be unusually light
in many yards being not over half {
crop. Hopgrowers aseribe the shortag,
to the unusually dry season.
The Sunday schools of Southern
Oregon will be represented in conven
ton at Grants Pass on the 9th and I'll
of October. jackson, Klamath, Curry
Coos and Josephine counties viii al
send number OF representatives.
Three new hotels are to be put NJ
at Grants station, on the Columbia
work to be commenced at once. TIL,
travel through the place from Golden
dale, w. T., has increased so much a
to justify the putting up of the build
ings.
While several cowboys were on
roundup of cattle near Lookout, ans
busily engaged at their work, SOM
| fearless law breaker drove off their pacl
animal to convenient spot and mad
away with the pack, containing grub
blankets, etc.
In the mountains near Lebanon
Frank Shafer, aged so, was mistakel
/ for bear in the bushes and shot a
by party of hunters. The old man
head was almost blown to atoms. Tn
coroner's jury found that his dealt
was accidental.
A young woman named Haas, livin
near Amity, shot herself in the fac
with pistol. She had been firing tn
4 pistol and looked in to see if there wa
any more loads-and there was. TIL
ball glanced off the side of the nos
and lodged in the cheek.
i s. III. Hite, aged about As, q mill
man of Albany, took an ounce OF laut
anum. Physicians say he cannot n
cover. He has q wife and FIVE chi
dren. The cause of the rash act
ascribed to temporary insanity, result
ing from financial troubles.
A meeting of the directors OF th
State Firemen's Association was hel
in Portland, and it was decided I
, hold the next annual convention an
tournament in Portland, Septembt
Is, IL, 15, 16 and IL, 1888. The fir.
two days will be devoted to the COZ
+ vention, the third to the parade, an
the last two To the races